Sidelights
On Oregon's
Fur Exhibit
Bits of Information
Abont Fur Farming
Cleaned From Show
By UUU L. Madsea
The quality of lot all over, and
specially In th Willamette val
ley, hat frtatly Improved la th
past yean over, aay 2ft years ago,
was a remark mad by Mike De-
derer of the Seattle Fur exchange
at the recent state tpx and mink
show held at the state fairgrounds.
Then one never saw a fox that
had food furred sides and backs.
Tne rur xarmers. nave come a
long way in the past score of years
and it haint been by mere luck.
Careful selection of breedin ani
mals, proper housing, proper food.
are responsible, he added.
Eugene Flnlay of Jefferson re
turned a few days,, ago from
Alaska. He fox-shopped on a
small bland near. Ouzinke, X3
miles from Kodiak. Going with
Mm was Erwln Swartz, also of
Jefferson. Swartz wasnt shopping
for foxes or. anything else. He
claimed he was. Just stght-eeelng
and keeping Flnlay company.
I Returning with Flnlay and
8warU were II pair of white fac
ed platinum foxeaJ Of these, nix.
pair were for Mr. and Mrs. C. W.
Stacey of Salem. The others were
for Flnlay and his two sons, John
and Lawrence Flnlay. The foxes
came in good condition consider
lng the length of. the trip, and now
are picking up splendidly at the
Willamette valley farms.
The trip
The OREGON STATESMAN, ficdem, Oregon, Thursday Morning; December fj, IS S3
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jYeics and-Views of Farm and Garden - ulije madse.
Quality, not
Quantity, Tops
New Fashion
years, hatcheries had had to use
almost all. eggs they , could get
How- they should ' use only first
grade eggs for hatching. Selection
of the finest poultry for breeding
stock is again In fashion, Bennioa
added, v
Hay
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es Labish
rly Sold
auction of onions, has been sold.
Recent purchasers include Leon
ard Holland' and Robert Meye, Psl' TT. 1
t of I the third W""i"ilCC8 XIUXJICU
I Yamhill County
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Of the large number of subdi
visions ,of the former Hayes La
bish Farms only four of the tea
who divided' a lot
. subdivision.
chased 2Vx
I Holland
also - pur-
Bcres of upland for
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Yamhill county delegates of the
Schreiber, Guy Shumway, - John
Kirsch, Harry Wicks, Rush Mil-
huiWin titk Thi Hm: int nArth 1 recently elected. AAA Icommunity
nt th hnnuinn w 7 tiVviiiHginn I committees will meet Friday af-
3, and was previously bought by 1 B ce fi "uie h.
ver dam lots "are left Sale of the I Peter Sproed. Mrs. Holland andGros McMinnville, county agent
Jadxes are teDing the recent for
shew visiters why they picked
the fex pletare here aa first la
the "llxht silver male pap
class." The animal Is from the
C W. 8taeey farfaraa, Salem.
Archie Gardner,' and their son-
in-law and d ai g h t er. Mr. and
Mrs. Otto Tunkert. Their fur
farms are in the Keixer district
Archie, who has been largely in
charge in recent years, said they
were increasing their herd some
what holding over about 300 fe
males and pelting around 100
mink this season. Fox will also be
Increased and only around 75 pelt
ed this year.
Father and Mother - Gardner
started in the fur-farming busi
ness around 20 years ago.
The C. T. Chapmans of Oregon
City have pelted some 700 ani
mals this season and are holding
over -500.
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Walter Pringle, manager of
farms began early last spring.
George T. Wadsworth, State
Bank of Gervais, who has: had
charge of the sales, said this week
that even if - all of the bottom
Mrs. Meye are sisters.
Bey Additional Lots . r
R. A. White and Jess Drans-
feldt, who both previously had
bought lots lin the land project.
land, some of which has not been bought additional pieces this past
considered suitable for the pro-
skins must be. Quality and uni
formity are necessary if western
mink are to 5 compete with east
ern furs. You have healthy ani
mats, good furs, but you lack uni-
formity. Perhaps you try too
mariy variations.' b
Says C W. Stacey, Salem; "How
many or you are laminar witn
all of the fox: mutations? We have
white faces or white marked sil
vers varying tin shades from dark
to the class 'known as platinum
white face, with many- different
shades of underfur. Then we have
five or more strains of platinum
silvers.! varying . in shades, 'from
dark to pale.We have pearl pla
tinum silver, land the new strain
derived from these, the Glazier
Blue, and Pearlatinas. Then we
have the blue fox shading in col
or from dark blue to platinum
blue, as well ;as the Arctic whites.
vIn mink Iwe have lustercius
week. A large machine' shed is
located on one of - the lots which
At this meetins three countr
committeemen will be chosen to
head up the county organization
and be responsible to all members
of the AAA program tor 1S4S.
i Community committees chosen
include: Carlton Chris Simon-
son; Walter Wills, Harry FJWfl
the men purchased. John Archer, J liams, Emll I Pearson, Stuart
rrencn, Walter Willi. Newberg
district chairman. IR. D. Lef
fler; . dekates, P.! Jungwlrth,
A, Is. Tanen, A. Wohlgemuth. H.
J. Leffler, Ahrin Smith. McMinn
ville chairman, Lawrence
LamDson. Frasier and Huth. New
was InteresUne. said York Oty furriers, said at the
Flnlay. In fact he added, there I Oregon ; show that while; he saw
were anma tmiph minrmm rKih I some individual fox on some of
made it mora Intm-Mtlntf InnV I the blif Great LakM farms which blacks, s black rcross, platinum, sU
back uoon than in liv th,ah were as rood or better than those VCT ale. oipnae, pastei, j-anaa,
at tne Oregon show, Oregon fox
were in general much better than
the eastern fox as a whole.
The mink situation was some
what different he added. West-
Finlay also said that Alaskan
fox didn't compare in condition
with the Willamette valley ani-
mala. Climate, within reason, he I
added, which some years ago was
believed the main factor in fur
Ebonyblu, white and other shades
Just being introduced.
Dr. O. J. Hummon, who is in
chargei of Pullman Wildlife Re-
who already owned a i tract of
Lake Labish beaver dam, ; pur
chased an additional lot this past
week. The 4ew purchase adjoins.
on the southwest, a lot owned by
Ernest Dunn. August J. Harris,
who owns a tract of beaver dam
farther up the lake, bought an
other lot this past week.; George
Schmidt of Mt AngeL who has
been employed on the Hayes
farms for several years and: who
has recently been operating a
fleet of trucks, also bought a lot
Other recent purchasers, are Mr.
and : Mrs. James V. Jaxkson, Don
Matheny of- Portland, and Wil
bert and LeRoy Aman, Mt Angel
hopmen. j 1 '
Wadsworth said that! there were
five large onion houses! which will
be sold before the land 'deal is
completely closed, but that It now
appears some additional onion
houses must be built to ! accom
modate all the growers who have
purchased 1 onion land Without
having mads any provision for
storage space. '-,. Hi 1 '
Oregon can maintain about the
same quantity of poultry output
the next year as in the past was
the expressed opinion of experi
enced poultrymen at a recent meet
denhalL : Julius Nlssen. . Fred ' J.
Johnson, Clyde J. Smith. Dayton
chairman, John j Allison; Ross
agent
However, the country as a whole
Is due for some cut back. Poultry
Cruikshank, Oden Morgareidga, J increased in production over
Ersel Gubser, John Heffler; Yam-!
hill chairman,' Fred Jernstedt; !
Earl -Miller, Oliver SchrepeL Hu
bert Page, J. Austin Boweni
50 per cent , during the war years.
Consumption has increased but 23
per cent The armed forces took
up the slack which will now have
to be taken up some other way or
a it ' Mm a
CO EX SHOW FLANS READY I prooucuon. wiu nave w oe cur-
. w-Uiirfii 4nm t,.luuie aia woei.Bennion, Oregon
All plans ara completed for thai mnA ,,jpm.
Marion countr corn show to be I-
held at citral 'Howell school I , in Oregon, populauon nas m-
Frlday. December t. The women creased rapidly and what used to
of me Farmers Union will serve I o a neavy exporting sxate, is now
dinner from 630 to PJn. and I poultry importing state.. But im-
Judging will follow. -. ; After the
judging there will be a program
arranged by the Farmers Union.
Dr. Fore of Oregon State college
win judge. U-i",'Ti
provement in quality of meatype
poultry and in eggs must be prac
ticed, Bennion said,' In talking
the poultrymen. c
He said that during the war-
IJEYEES PROTECT FARMS .-
Stayton and Kingston farmert
iit the former flood area are high
in praise of the revetment project
completed just before the last
neavy rains. People in the area
report that the floods, in former
years did untold damage to the
farm lands in that district Recent
rains brought the river over the
first bench, constructed of boul
ders, but the water had not com
within five or six feet of the to?
the outer levee. - -
The holes in Swiss cheeee n
the result of bacterial action, v !
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CHILD KUirV
ASKS FOR FLY CONTROL-
Of specia interest in I Marion
county. - says Frank McKennon.
era mink farmers should breed search Station, PuHtaan, Wash-, I chief of the division of plant in-
raising, isnt nearly so important, more closely for uniformity, he and a i recent Salem-vidnlty furldustry. state department of agri-
farm visitor,; remarked that the! culture, Is the petitions from the
Willamette valley seemed remar- Wasco County Fruit and Produce
kably free from the fur animal j league. .The petitions asks the de
diseases " found in many places Jpartment to I establish a fruit fly
He is working on the studies bf control area sin Wasco county and
fur animal diseases andv their coil- to call a hearing to establish per
troL Distemper, he said, had tak- manent grades for cherries for
en a heavy toll in some localities. I canning. j ' jij j
It has been discovered, as food
and living conditions.
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Among Oregon's betu known
fox and mink breeders are the
Gardners. These Include Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Gardner,' their son and
cTaughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
thought
"Mutations," said Pr Ingle,
"have opened a new world in fur
fanning, A more interesting
world. But greater care must be
exercised in breeding and selec
tion. Mutations are more diffi
cult to match and matched the
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